Loving brother and uncle Christopher Chapman's life was ended by a knife in the hand of a drunken teenage girl.
Natasha Johnson was just 16 when she plunged a six-inch kitchen knife into 24-year-old Christopher Chapman in the early hours of April 19 2011.
The blade penetrated his stomach, diaphragm and liver and severed his aorta, killing him almost instantly.
Johnson’s friend Megan Hope, 19, was armed with a carving knife as she stood by during the lethal attack outside Mr Chapman’s ground-floor flat in Windmill Grove in Blyth, Northumberland.
Each had downed vodka, whisky and wine and had gone there “armed and intent on violence”, Newcastle Crown Court heard, after exchanging insults by mobile telephone with one of Mr Chapman’s friends.
Johnson claimed Mr Chapman, who had asked the girls to leave, impaled himself on her knife as she brandished it in self-protection, but a jury rejected her claim and found both guilty of murder.
Following the trial Christopher's family told of their loss.
His sister Donna Branley said: "He was a proper canny lad, he was just mint and he was the best uncle. His nephew was only 10 weeks old when he died. He was such a popular guy who had loads of friends, you could see that at the funeral there were so many there."
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